The forgotten cohort-lessons learned from prehospital trauma death: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trauma related deaths remain a relevant public health problem, in particular in the younger male population. A significant number of these deaths occur prehospitally without transfer to a hospital. These patients, sometimes termed "the forgotten cohort", are usually not included in clinical registries, resulting in a lack of information about prehospitally trauma deaths. The aim of the present study was to compare patients who died prehospital with those who sustained life-threatening injuries in order to analyze and potentially improve prehospital strategies.

Methods

This cohort study included all primary operations carried out by Switzerland's largest helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2021. We included all adul

SUBMITTER: Jakob DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10405424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature